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Title

An ideal prison? : critical essays on women's imprisonment in Canada / edited by Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Margaret Shaw.

Publication

Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Hannah-Moffat, Kelly, 1967-
• Shaw, Margaret.

Description

168 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

'Ten years after the publication of Creating Choices, a remarkable report on women's imprisonment in Canada, this book sets out to reflect on attempts to reform prison. In a series of critical essays, the contributors stimulate reflection and discussion. Taking Creating Choices as a starting point, these essays question the role of prisons in our society, the importance of taking account of gender and its intersection with race and class, and the problems of both weak feminist models and the co-optation of feminist ideals and Aboriginal spirituality by correctional systems.' - from back cover.

Subject

• Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Canada
• Female offenders > Rehabilitation > Canada
• Prisonnières > Canada
• Women prisoners > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-168).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Re-forming the prison, rethinking our ideals / Kelly Hannah-Moffat -- Prison reform and incorporation / Stephanie Hayman -- Aboriginal women and correctional practice / Patricia Monture-Angus -- Women, violence and disorder in prisons / Margaret Shaw -- Dependency discourse as social control / Shoshana Pollack -- Psy-ence fiction / Kathy Kendall -- Feminist therapy with women in prison / Gillian Balfour -- Processing humans / Gayle Horii -- The prisoning of women / Elizabeth Comack -- Women in the "Hole" / Joane Martel -- Personal and political musings on activism / Karlene Faith and Kim Pate.

ISBN

1552660249 :

LCCN

cn^00950050^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library